…Holy shit. I didn’t even know RSD was a thing until just now. But legit, this describes like 90% of my anxiety issues so well… Not sure how knowing the name helps deal with it, if at all. But I guess I should feel at least a little relieved to know it’s not as uncommon as I thought, and hey go figure it’s often related to ADHD… You know, the other thing I have to deal with. Anyways, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

Aw, reminds me of the first time I ever tried to make a campagne, my friends who usually GM just kept being jerks, and doing things to BREAK it to teach me a lesson, they actually just fully broke my desire to try and make a game session ever again.

Then when I was done and frustrated (after one character just sat in front of a gate and literally refused to move and do anything else) He just shrugs and says that he did that to show me how broken my system was, and that I needed to do a LOT more work to be any good, and then ran his campaign that night.

That’s not only being a jerk, that’s being a shitty player too, that’s the kind of thing kids do when they are playing for the first time and don’t understand how it is supposed to work. This guy doesn’t know how gaming is supposed to work, neither that nor friendship. I don’t think he can give any lesson on anything because he removed himself any legitimacy he thinks he could have.

Thankfully that was years ago, and he’s matured a lot since then! He’s now our full time GM and has really grown into being a GOOD Gm, he even holds a special Horror rp session on my birthday every year now <3

Holy honey barbecue hot sauce, we still have to deal with these narrow-minded nimrods who judge the value of a Gm by the configuration of their junk.

I honestly don’t know what else to say beyond suggesting that anyone who has this sort of view on female GM’s should check up on the streams of The Unexpectables and see just what a female GM is capable of.

Yup, they were dicks. These days, it’s getting hard to find games because it’s hard to find GMs. Besides, every GM’s first session is going to be rough as hell; it’s like an immutable law. Your GM friends need to smacked upside the head for forgetting that 🙂

I had planned out a full campaign for my group of friends because our usual DM was tired of doing it, and nobody else wanted to step up for more than a session or two. Thankfully, I didn’t write/plan extensively (I had the Macguffin in mind, and the first two steps to getting the party involved, and that was it) because the group just collapsed around me due to interplayer conflict (unrelated to the game).

When the current (almost entirely different) group’s DM decided he was getting tired of running campaigns (and not playing) and wanted someone else to step up, I gave it another shot. I’m very glad I did. The group dynamic is totally different and the resulting characters are better, so I think they’re all having fun. This party is probably 2 sessions (2 pieces of the Macguffin) away from finishing the campaign, whereas the other group barely even managed to find out they *needed* pieces of the Macguffin before exploding.

If you don’t just absolutely hate DMing on its face (one of my friends feels that way), then it’s all just about finding the right audience/players, I think.

Hmm….Naw, I don’t think it was Philly-Boy. My $10 is on a yet to be introduced sibling of Carlos; possibly an older or twin brother who’s left home already and read Carlos the riot act about “Silly-Ass Make Believe”.

🙁 Poor Carlos! As an up and coming ST, I FEEL him. Even constructive criticism’s sometimes made me get misty. I know it’s stupid, but y’all can’t help it. But I’d so loan him my FATE dice. Just to make this work.

That’s rough, poor guy. Honestly, this was probably the best place for Carlos to start because, snark aside, everyone in their group is a good friend/ courteous player. They can fix this. If carlos had another group to start with, they’d do way more damage.

Ok, Carlos. This is getting out of hand. Grow a pair and GM, RIGHT. NOW. Those are your friends taking playfull jabs at each other. Instead of cowering into a seashell, call Trevor a Drama-Queen and go on with it.

I’ve been in Carlos’s shoes. It sucks. Nothing is ever good enough. It doesn’t matter if it’s good enough for someone else, or makes them smile, laugh or find enjoyment from it. It’s not good enough unless everyone smiles, laughs and takes enjoyment from it. Because that’s the way you know you succeeded, if no one complains. But, remember, just because no one’s complained yet, it doesn’t mean they won’t in the future, so . . . have you ever really succeeded? (While no, I do not currently feel this way about my life, it is a manner in which I once thought about my actions in life. I get the sense that Carlos may feel in a similar manner at times, and for that my heart goes out to him. The fact that Carlos is just a fictional character, means that the artist behind him is a genius to be able to convey such emotion in this comic. Well done Brian!)

Gamers should be supporting the new people. I lost two friends who I thought would be good gamers when my gaming groups (two different instances at two different times) accused the first one of being a “Mary Sue” and slamming the second one for his inexperience. Both never came back, and the second one became a RPG hater because of it.